What name is given to the third state of the church?
Answer
"To the angel of the church in Pergamos write." Verse 12.
NOTE - The meaning of Pergamos is height, or elevation, and fitly represents that period of the
Christian church, beginning with the reign of the Emperor Constantine in AD. 313, when the power which
had put the Christians to death espoused the cause of the church, and by rewards, edicts, and promised
promotions to office in the government, sought to induce the people to become Christians, thus bringing a
flood of worldliness and corruption into the church. Many of the heathen rites and ceremonies previously
introduced into the Christian religion, including the heathen festival, Sunday (sun's day), were then
established by law, the result being that the first day of the week took the place of the Sabbath of the Bible.
Did Joshua think it immaterial what god Israel served?
What was the Comforter to do when He came?
What similar call and appeal will be made under the final outpouring of the Spirit?
What would obedience to God's commandments have ensured to ancient Israel?
26. When Israel had apostatized, and were almost universally worshipping Baal, what appeal did Elijah make to them?
Why, under these plagues, does the Lord give men blood to drink?
When cast into the lions' den, how did Daniel say he had been saved from death?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle